Frederick Lenz Quotes about Suffering

Some people say: There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering. Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.

Frederick Lenz

God, People, Suffering

You don't know why, but you know you have to go home. It's an eternal longing. It's Marvell's drop of dew wanting to go back to the sky. We're drawn by a force we don't understand, through worlds, through experience.

Frederick Lenz

Home, Sky, Suffering

When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe, you are not affected by suffering the way other people are.

Frederick Lenz

People, Mind, Suffering

Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

Frederick Lenz

Dog, People, Suffering

Nirvana is the center of things; then there are the outer bandings of attention. The universe is a mind. At the center of its mind is nirvana.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Mind, Suffering

Intentional suffering and the postponement of happiness is not yoga or Buddhism. It will not lead to a better incarnation.

Frederick Lenz

Yoga, Buddhism, Suffering

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Suffering, Enlightenment

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Frederick Lenz

Compassion, Suffering, Imagine

Your mind is filled with thoughts and desires. Your moods shift constantly. You are not sure what it is you want, it changes from moment to moment; there is little or no continuity in your life.

Frederick Lenz

Mind, Suffering, Desire

Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

Frederick Lenz

Suffering, Needs, Tvs

You cannot be born and you cannot die. You will exist in a universe that goes on forever. That is the ultimate horror from the Zen point of view. You could be unhappy forever.

Frederick Lenz

Views, Forever, Suffering

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

Frederick Lenz

Games, Suffering, Wheels

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Suffering, Enlightenment

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Long, Suffering

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

Frederick Lenz

Suffering, World, This World

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

Frederick Lenz

Upset, Suffering, Littles

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

Frederick Lenz

Suffering, Desire, Emotion

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

Frederick Lenz

Suffering, Lifetime, Loses

The time we waste never comes again. The opportunities we miss never come again. The loves we lose never come again. Indeed, in this world of constant change we are fortunate that these things never come again.

Frederick Lenz

Opportunity, Missing, Suffering

You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.

Frederick Lenz

Glasses, Diversity, Suffering

We wait for the fulfillment of our desires. We wait with hope, apathy, resignation, belief. We become despondent, elated. We wait

Frederick Lenz

Waiting, Suffering, Desire

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way

Frederick Lenz

Tired, People, Suffering

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Frederick Lenz

Suffering, Enlightenment, Firsts

Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.

Frederick Lenz

Pain, Suffering, Age

Hell is everything. Heaven is nothing.

Frederick Lenz

Heaven, Suffering, Hell

Frederick Lenz Quotes about Suffering

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